To learn more, check out the *incredible* graphical abstract designed by Miranta Kouvari, Emily Green and Melisa Morales from @graphicssci.bsky.social

Erin Dillon@erinmdillon.bsky.social · 2d ago

How many #sharks should there be on a coral #reef? Our new publication in Science tackles this question using thousands of fossil shark dermal denticles—tiny, tooth-like scales that are shed and preserve in sediments—from Panama's two oceans. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

How many #sharks should there be on a coral #reef? Our new publication in Science tackles this question using thousands of fossil shark dermal denticles—tiny, tooth-like scales that are shed and preserve in sediments—from Panama's two oceans. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Long before intensive human fishing began, Pacific reefs naturally supported far more sharks than Caribbean reefs, according to a new Science study. Learn more in this week’s issue: https://scim.ag/4x3GBBO

Our work is out! Meet Tametara mirim, a new fossil snake 🐍 from Brazil that has challenged our views on early snake evolution! A jewel 💎 from the Cretaceous brought to you by an amazing team of colleagues among which @trsimoes.bsky.social and @nicolasdipoi.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes - Nature

A well-preserved fossil snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil shows early ecological and brain shape disparity in the group.

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I was delighted to present my findings on extinction patterns in sloths at the II Brazilian Congress of Evolutionary Biology (@sbbe.bsky.social), a new interdisciplinary meeting with so much potential. It was amazing to connect with so many researchers and also enjoy the wonders of Minas Gerais 🍛🧀!

💻 Our new website is now live! 💻 Over the past few months, we've been working hard to create a hub of resources designed to support the palaeontological community. 🔗 Find out more and visit the new site here: palaeoverse.org

Reportagem do Jornal da USP sobre nosso artigo publicado recentemente.

USP - Universidade de São Paulo@uspoficial.bsky.social · last mo.

Pesquisa realizada no Instituto de Biociências da USP revela que a introdução do gado bovino no Pampa não substitui funcionalmente a megafauna extinta no fim do Pleistoceno, resultando em um ecossistema com diversidade funcional empobrecida

Pesquisa realizada no Instituto de Biociências da USP revela que a introdução do gado bovino no Pampa não substitui funcionalmente a megafauna extinta no fim do Pleistoceno, resultando em um ecossistema com diversidade funcional empobrecida

Fósseis da megafauna ajudam a entender a perda de diversidade de mamíferos no Pampa

Gado inserido no bioma menos preservado do Brasil não substitui funções ecológicas de nenhuma das espécies extintas há 12 mil anos

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#opinião 📝 Reinaldo José Lopes | Herbívoros domésticos não substituem megafauna, afirma pesquisa. Estudo analisou funções ecológicas de grandes mamíferos do passado e do presente no pampa. Maioria das espécies criadas pelo homem tem função nova para o bioma; cavalos são a exceção

Opinião - Reinaldo José Lopes: Herbívoros domésticos não substituem megafauna, afirma pesquisa

Estudo analisou funções ecológicas de grandes mamíferos do passado e do presente no pampa

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This is the plain language summary of our recent paper: fesummaries.wordpress.com/2026/06/05/w...

What do fossils teach us about conservation and ecological restoration?

Thayara S. Carrasco, Catalina Pimiento, Tiago B. Quental, Pedro L. Godoy This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. The fossil record documen…

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Pedro Godoy@pedrolgodoy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our newest paper, led by postdoc Thayara Carrasco & published in @funecology.bsky.social, tracks functional diversity loss of land mammals during the Late Pleistocene extinctions in a grassland ecosystem 🧵 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🎨: @lacerdajulio.bsky.social

📣 We're recruiting for an Associate Editor with data integrity expertise! 📊 join us in improving the clarity, transparency, & accessibility of ecological research. 🌿 more information on the role and how to apply can be found here 👉️ buff.ly/R8z4TLe

Esse merece uma tradução para o português! Afinal, tem importância para a conservação das espécies do bioma menos protegido do Brasil: o Pampa! Segue o fio 👇 🎨: @funecology.bsky.social

Pedro Godoy@pedrolgodoy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our newest paper, led by postdoc Thayara Carrasco & published in @funecology.bsky.social, tracks functional diversity loss of land mammals during the Late Pleistocene extinctions in a grassland ecosystem 🧵 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🎨: @lacerdajulio.bsky.social

Our newest paper, led by postdoc Thayara Carrasco & published in @funecology.bsky.social, tracks functional diversity loss of land mammals during the Late Pleistocene extinctions in a grassland ecosystem 🧵 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🎨: @lacerdajulio.bsky.social

Long‐term changes in functional diversity and its implications for mammalian conservation and ecological restoration in a grassland ecosystem

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Ok, this is cool... Treemble: A graphical tool to generate Newick strings from phylogenetic tree images🧪 academic.oup.com/bioinformati... Treemble is a native desktop application for macOS and Windows and is freely available, with documentation, at treemble.org.

🚨New Pub!🚨The reproducibility crisis in phylogenetic analyses🪾🛠️by Godoy et al. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The reproducibility crisis in phylogenetic analyses

Published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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🚨 New croc paper alert! Another study led by Ana Laura Paiva (PhD student I co-supervise with Max Langer) is out today in Palaeontology! We revisit a classic question with new tools: how big were notosuchians, really? 🐊📏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Art: @mirantakouvari.bsky.social

New paper @thepalass.bsky.social led by PhD student Ana Laura Paiva (with @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social, @paleodaniel.bsky.social & others) estimating body size in notosuchian crocodylomorphs, with implications for extinction selectivity across the K/Pg mass extinction: doi.org/10.1111/pala...

Super proud of Ana Clara Anes that went to Morocco for the Crocodilian Specialist Group Meeting in Agadir and presented the results of her undergrad project. Ana's pioneering work uses data from fossils to help inform us about crocodylian conservation! Way yo go Ana! 🥹🐊🇲🇦

As of last month, I’ve joined the editorial board of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology @jvertpaleo.bsky.social as the new Phylogenetics Editor! I’m responsible for evaluating reproducibility of phylogenetic analyses submitted to the journal. 💻⚒️

A new editorial delves into the pressing issue of reproducibility in paleontology, spotlighting how the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology is tackling this challenge in evolutionary biology 🦴 Learn more 👉 spr.ly/6003BBjr25 #FossilFriday @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social @sabercatwoman.bsky.social

The reproducibility crisis in phylogenetic analyses

Published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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How to put a crocodile in a CT scanner. 🐊 healthcare.utah.edu/newsroom/new...

How to CT Scan a 400-Pound Crocodile

When Bill the ten-foot-long Siamese crocodile started showing changes to his health, University of Utah Health radiologists and Hogle Zoo veterinary experts joined forces in the unique diagnostic ende...

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This is interesting. I had a recent experience with JSP (not JVP) where both the editor and a reviewer said they failed to reproduce the results we reported based on our dataset. 🧵

Joseph W. Brown@josephwb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The reproducibility crisis in phylogenetic analyses HT @daveyfwright.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Lendário @reinaldojlopes.bsky.social escrevendo sobre o retorno do tmb lendário Irritator!! #IrritatorBelongstoBR 🦖🇧🇷 www1.folha.uol.com.br/amp/colunas/...

Really important to highlight the need for increased rigor in phylogenetic analyses in paleontology. Too many methods sections do not include a full set of instructions/commands, and too many datasets are not formatted correctly or even provided.

Joseph W. Brown@josephwb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The reproducibility crisis in phylogenetic analyses HT @daveyfwright.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In a new editorial in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (free to read, link below), the journal’s editors lay out critical findings on the computational reproducibility of phylogenetic analyses www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The reproducibility crisis in phylogenetic analyses

Published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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🚨 Out today: our Editorial in @jvertpaleo.bsky.social on an important issue in science - the reproducibility crisis in phylogenetic analyses. In it, we analyze several years of editorial data to ask a simple question: are things improving? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Decoupled phenotypic constraints framed by respiratory adaptation in the rise of land vertebrates | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Decoupled phenotypic constraints framed by respiratory adaptation in the rise of land vertebrates

Macroevolutionary models show that rib-based breathing released constraints on body size and cranial evolution in early amniotes.

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Ecological selectivity of diet on turtle K/Pg survivorship royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Ecological selectivity of diet on turtle K/Pg survivorship

Abstract. The Cretaceous/Palaeogene (K/Pg) mass extinction was catastrophic, eliminating much of terrestrial life and entire iconic vertebrate groups, such

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🚨 New paper I had the honor to illustrate! 🚨 Guilherme Hermanson and Serjoscha W. Evers take a look at the survivors of the K-Pg event among the turtles and besides size note that especially diet is something that sets them apart: many of them very shell crusher! paper below:

Dasosaurus tocantinensis tinha cerca de 20 metros de comprimento e viveu aproximadamente há 120 milhões de anos. Do ponto de vista evolutivo, a espécie conhecida mais próxima viveu na atual Espanha. agencia.fapesp.br/57516

Novo dinossauro pescoçudo encontrado no Maranhão era parente próximo de espécie europeia

<i>Dasosaurus tocantinensis</i> tinha cerca de 20 metros de comprimento e viveu aproximadamente há 120 milhões de anos; espécie mais próxima viveu na atual Espanha

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